cairns rainforest tours: Tropical Horizons
Tropical Horizons — Kuranda, Tablelands and Skybury Australian Coffee Centre
Enjoy a fantastic day visiting the quaint Kuranda Village high in the Tropical Rainforest and also touring the Northern Highlands. Combine the Kuranda Scenic Train and/or Skyrail and travel on one of the best value for money day tours in Tropical North Queensland. Beyond Kuranda the experienced driver/guides will show you the amazing Northern Highlands — an elevated plateau of diverse beauty, contrasting scenery, and fertile farmlands producing a wide range of horticultural and agricultural crops — such as coffee, macadamia nuts, tropical fruits, peanuts, and tea plantations. Yum! Your tour commences with the Scenic train to Kuranda, and if you like you can upgrade to the Gold Class option and experience train travel in real style! This train trip is just so spectacular you simply cannot miss it for anything!. Deep gorges, cascading waterfalls at Barron Gorge, and an opportunity to stop off and take some photographs and learn how the railway was cut deep into the mountains by hand by our brave pioneers.
Spend a leisurely hour in Kuranda combing the streets before the coach departs for the diverse farmlands of the Atherton Tablelands. A region all the locals affectionately call our fruit-bowl. Learn about the contribution the Chinese and Italians made to this region a long time ago and see what it is today and how it contributes to markets all over the world.
Skybury, the Australian Coffee Centre is the oldest and largest coffee plantation in Australia. — enjoy The Coffee Indulgence Tour in the newly built Coffee Centre and see how coffee is produced and The Coffee Cupping Tour — for coffee tasters. The building itself is worth the drive. Enjoy a fabulous lunch in the Plantation restaurant. Don't miss the exquisite coffee ice-cream frozen desserts. In the afternoon you will continue onto the mysterious Granite Gorge. A huge granite outcrop with running streams and an abundance of Australian Wildlife. Feed the Mareeba Rock Wallaby, take a swim in the rock pools, see the magnetic Termite mounds. The tour finishes with a tropical fruit tasting before decending the Kuranda range in the soft afternoon light overlooking the Coral Sea in a Skyrail gondola.
The Tour Specialists Tip
If you love coffee and exotic foods you will just love this tour. Very well put together and informative. Suitable for all age groups. Book a 2nd or 3rd tour and save
